Latest / Locatora Radio [A Radiophonic Novela] / Capítulo 044: Loquitas Go to Hollywood

Transcript

Capítulo 044: Loquitas Go to Hollywood · Locatora Radio [A Radiophonic Novela]

0:02
Speaker 1: Radio Radio Radio is a myth and bullshit a radio
0:16
Speaker 1: phonic novella local radio hosted by Malamo Com. You all
0:22
Speaker 1: to the seventeenth Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, and
0:26
Speaker 1: I quickly wanted to share with you that when Edward
0:28
Speaker 1: James almost first asked me to help bring back La Leaf,
0:32
Speaker 1: we had an honest discussion about how our community is
0:35
Speaker 1: not advancing in the film industry as much as we
0:37
Speaker 1: share to simply based on our talent, and I said,
0:40
Speaker 1: if that's the case, then we should be promoting and
0:42
Speaker 1: supporting the other platforms where our storytellers are advancing, which
0:46
Speaker 1: is why we created La Leaf Art, la Leaf Music,
0:49
Speaker 1: la Leaf Legacy. Uh, and we're hoping to build out
0:53
Speaker 1: in La Leaf two thousand nineteen, la Leaf TV and
0:56
Speaker 1: La Leaf Podcast because I do believe our Latin X
1:00
Speaker 1: podcasts are telling demost authentic stories right now. So we
1:04
Speaker 1: reached out to podcast Stereo Network with Lynda and Louise
1:09
Speaker 1: and we started coordinating this big, big thing that is
1:12
Speaker 1: now called Live from La Leaf, a Viva podcast event. So,
1:17
Speaker 1: without any further Ado, let's introduce your podcasts, which are
1:22
Speaker 1: starting with Latinos who Lunch are fabby and babbilito, I
1:31
Speaker 1: want to take the seats right here, and of course
1:33
Speaker 1: our local to a radio Mala and diosa thank you.
1:42
Speaker 1: And just really quickly before I introduce the cast and
1:48
Speaker 1: crew and creator of the amazing runaway hit Viva on Stars,
1:54
Speaker 1: I just quickly want to say that there's not enough
1:56
Speaker 1: uh female showrunners in Hollywood, and that they're not enough
2:00
Speaker 1: fino uh showrunners in Hollywood. But to have a Latina
2:04
Speaker 1: chinona to be a showrunner in Hollywood is just absolutely
2:09
Speaker 1: unheard of. Uh. So please welcome our creator of this show,
2:13
Speaker 1: who's also the executive producer, the head writer, uh Tanya
2:18
Speaker 1: Sacho and her amazing, amazing stars Michelle Brava, Melissa Barrera
2:27
Speaker 1: said Antegi and Maria Lenlas. Ladies and gentlemen, the cast
2:33
Speaker 1: and crew and creators of Viva and we are lad Hello, hello, hello, hello,
2:43
Speaker 1: hello hello. How is everybody today? So good and muggy
2:47
Speaker 1: and had but good right downstairs greeted me. That's lovely
2:57
Speaker 1: on the boulevard. Did everybody survived the traffic and the
3:01
Speaker 1: road closures. It's Carnival this weekend. Let's give it up
3:04
Speaker 1: for Carnival. So before we get started, we want to
3:08
Speaker 1: introduce ourselves. Um, thank you so much Rapa for that introduction.
3:12
Speaker 1: So my name is Mala and I'm Diosa and we
3:14
Speaker 1: are Last Locals of Radio a radio phonic novella, which
3:18
Speaker 1: is a really fancy way of saying a podcast podcast.
3:21
Speaker 1: It's a party. Like to frame our podcast like a
3:24
Speaker 1: novela right, and like novelas there's a lot of names.
3:26
Speaker 1: So we're Last Mommy, submit and bullshit or Radiola La
3:30
Speaker 1: we're Latina's. We had to overname ourselves, yes, okay, just
3:33
Speaker 1: so you really know who we are, right, And we
3:36
Speaker 1: have our friends here with us of Latinos who lunch. Hello, Hi,
3:40
Speaker 1: I'm Fabby fab and and we are Latinos who launch
3:45
Speaker 1: the podcast where we talk about important things like a
3:48
Speaker 1: negative times and negative equals are positive down? How you
3:51
Speaker 1: guys something? So we have our beautiful, beautiful creator and
3:57
Speaker 1: cast of the new stars hit show Viva. Let's give
4:00
Speaker 1: it up for them. So just to get us started, Tanya,
4:07
Speaker 1: you know you started off as a playwright. You were
4:10
Speaker 1: involved with the Luna, you were doing adaptations of a
4:14
Speaker 1: House on Mango Street. And now you work in film
4:17
Speaker 1: and you're writing and you've worked on Devious Maids. You
4:20
Speaker 1: have created this amazing, beautiful show, Viva, and I'm hoping
4:23
Speaker 1: you can tell us just a little bit about the
4:25
Speaker 1: origin story, how you got started and your and your
4:28
Speaker 1: cast introduced your cast to us. I'll tell you a
4:30
Speaker 1: little bit, um about well, I guess the origin story. Um.
4:34
Speaker 1: I was a player right in Chicago for like fifteen years. UM.
4:38
Speaker 1: I co founded a company called Tuna Latinas. So that
4:43
Speaker 1: was really badass, um. And and then we that's I
4:47
Speaker 1: started as an actor. Um. And all the roles back then,
4:50
Speaker 1: back in those days, um, all the roles were named Maria,
4:53
Speaker 1: and they were always like, um, yes, I'll take your code,
4:56
Speaker 1: you know, like or something like that. And it was
4:58
Speaker 1: just really depressing. I was like, I went to ox
5:00
Speaker 1: I studied Shakespeare. Ellen Rickman was my professor. Like I like,
5:04
Speaker 1: am I just gonna be taking coats all my life?
5:06
Speaker 1: You know? So I started that company and then that's
5:09
Speaker 1: sort of um, because we didn't have money for royalties.
5:11
Speaker 1: We uh, we were writing our own stuff. And then
5:15
Speaker 1: that's sort of how I just became a playwright, you know. Um.
5:19
Speaker 1: The companies like Stepping Wolf where a house on Mango Street,
5:22
Speaker 1: the musical was done, and and Goodman were most of
5:25
Speaker 1: my plays were done. UM started noticing me and they
5:28
Speaker 1: commissioned me, and then all the next thing I knew
5:30
Speaker 1: I was a playwright. UM. And one of these plays
5:33
Speaker 1: that I was doing in New York, uh in Fresca
5:37
Speaker 1: UM which now um will be hopefully soon UM on
5:41
Speaker 1: TV show too. UM. The like this UTA agent discard me.
5:47
Speaker 1: I kept calling it's it's called U t A but
5:49
Speaker 1: like forever, I kept calling him. It is a guy from.
5:53
Speaker 1: I was like, and he was taking me out to
5:54
Speaker 1: lunch and in the theater they only take it out
5:56
Speaker 1: for coffee, and so I was like, I ordered like
5:58
Speaker 1: a steak or something. I was like, I don't know
6:00
Speaker 1: what this guy from what that was, but UM, I'm
6:02
Speaker 1: want to meet with him because it's like a free stake.
6:04
Speaker 1: So UM he was like, you can write for television.
6:07
Speaker 1: And it sort of happened like that. So I had
6:10
Speaker 1: no TV training. No, I mean I could tell a
6:13
Speaker 1: story because I was telling you know, I've written like
6:16
Speaker 1: sixteen plays I directed, I was running my theater. Um.
6:19
Speaker 1: But that yeah, that's sort of how it really happened.
6:22
Speaker 1: I show up and I do take meetings and then
6:25
Speaker 1: Dvous Maids happened. I didn't know I was interviewed for
6:28
Speaker 1: dvous Maids and I when I and I hadn't seen
6:30
Speaker 1: this for housewives. You know, I didn't like all that,
6:33
Speaker 1: so I got here by accident. Um, so this I
6:38
Speaker 1: don't know how to explain that. All this you know, um,
6:41
Speaker 1: because it's amazing. Um. And then you know, I worked
6:44
Speaker 1: on shows like Looking a Little Bit Girls, um, how
6:47
Speaker 1: to get Away with Murder, And then stars came to me. Um,
6:52
Speaker 1: a Hispanic woman and stars came and I said, um.
6:57
Speaker 1: She called me in for a meeting and and said
7:00
Speaker 1: have you heard of CHIPsters? And I was like, chick
7:03
Speaker 1: on hipsters? Um, have you heard of hintification? And I
7:06
Speaker 1: had not heard of that term? So I was like, wait,
7:09
Speaker 1: what is that? We and like the unpacking of that
7:11
Speaker 1: term at that meeting it just seemed really interesting. And
7:14
Speaker 1: she she said, you know, we're looking for a millennial
7:18
Speaker 1: female centered uh East Side of l a show. Can
7:22
Speaker 1: you do you think you can write one about identification
7:24
Speaker 1: and um, CHIPsters? And I was like yeah, but I
7:27
Speaker 1: don't know if I could. But I was like, you
7:29
Speaker 1: say yes right when they ask you. So then then
7:33
Speaker 1: the process was like two year process that takes forever
7:36
Speaker 1: and you don't think it's going to happen, and there
7:38
Speaker 1: were other shows and contentions, so but then here we are.
7:42
Speaker 1: It happened in congratulations your season two, I know, was
7:48
Speaker 1: just renewed, So congrats to all, thank you. They're going
7:52
Speaker 1: to see that. Um so yes so um sitting here
7:57
Speaker 1: next to me, I'm a beautiful um actors Michelle Prada
8:01
Speaker 1: who plays Emma, Melissa Arrera plays Lynn, Emma who plays
8:13
Speaker 1: Eddie Martinezuina Martinez, and then Marina Last who plays um
8:21
Speaker 1: Um Cruise. But I was gonna say Marie Cruise, but
8:23
Speaker 1: were never called Cruis Cruise. Yes, and this is cast,
8:30
Speaker 1: so go ahead. No. I just wanted to if you
8:33
Speaker 1: guys con continue a little bit with that because you
8:35
Speaker 1: say that for a long time, Latinos are always limited
8:38
Speaker 1: to this type of roles, and I wanted to ask
8:40
Speaker 1: you that to all of you, how does it feel
8:42
Speaker 1: to finally have the opportunity to play your people but
8:45
Speaker 1: in a completely different light? Wow? Wow? I mean, like,
8:52
Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of people here, I've I've been
8:54
Speaker 1: in the town for a long time and there's always
8:56
Speaker 1: been sort of the token Latina on the show or
8:59
Speaker 1: in the films one here and there, and and it's
9:02
Speaker 1: been you know, it's been hard. It's been a battle
9:04
Speaker 1: sticking with it. A lot of people have have given
9:07
Speaker 1: up over the years. And it's amazing that this wave
9:10
Speaker 1: is coming in now and all of a sudden we
9:11
Speaker 1: have this opportunity that we didn't before. So for me,
9:14
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm so grateful. It's just it's like a
9:16
Speaker 1: dream come true, right where all of a sudden they
9:19
Speaker 1: want to hear our stories and and they want to
9:21
Speaker 1: know more about us. So it's awesome. That's hard, right
9:26
Speaker 1: I ever, I know for myself playing um, you know,
9:29
Speaker 1: butch lesbian. At one point I did identify as a lesbian. Um,
9:33
Speaker 1: I'm more I'm queer and identified as an actor non
9:37
Speaker 1: binary trans UM. Thank you um and uh Marianna, it's
9:47
Speaker 1: an honor to have you. UM. And I I think
9:51
Speaker 1: because like it is, it is like a lot of
9:53
Speaker 1: people that don't have the experience may not know what
9:56
Speaker 1: it's like to have to live. UM. Perhaps like you know,
10:00
Speaker 1: if you're an actor and you're celebrating you know, the role,
10:03
Speaker 1: like you think about who do you celebrate it with?
10:06
Speaker 1: You know, your family, A lot of people felt that
10:08
Speaker 1: a family or they celebrate it um with their kids
10:11
Speaker 1: and that kind of thing. So I think it's something
10:13
Speaker 1: to think about, like, you know, as an actor that
10:16
Speaker 1: you know, we have to like I'm representing someone who's
10:19
Speaker 1: who's in the community as well, but like that that
10:22
Speaker 1: is something as an actor that is a struggle. You know,
10:25
Speaker 1: it's a struggle and a lot of people in the
10:27
Speaker 1: community struggle with that as well. So I think playing
10:29
Speaker 1: someone who is in the community on screen, you know,
10:33
Speaker 1: could could lend to like opening up that though not
10:37
Speaker 1: only windows of opportunities and opportunities, but also there's so
10:40
Speaker 1: much like uh, suicide, um and and so much violence
10:44
Speaker 1: in our community that I feel like people out there
10:48
Speaker 1: in lgbt Q I are looking for not only the
10:51
Speaker 1: representative representation, but to validate their lives. And that's real,
10:56
Speaker 1: you know, and as an actor is so important and
10:58
Speaker 1: getting to see, um just all the different nuances and
11:03
Speaker 1: crevices and cracks that come into our communities, whether it's
11:08
Speaker 1: lgbt Q or Latino X communities. I mean, I'm sure
11:11
Speaker 1: all of us in here have very different experiences and
11:15
Speaker 1: yet kind of similar blood that runs through those experiences.
11:19
Speaker 1: As well, like Melissa and I grew up very differently, um,
11:22
Speaker 1: but and I feel like, yeah, we can say that
11:25
Speaker 1: for all of us, but I know that, like coming
11:27
Speaker 1: on set, it was like, oh, yes, here we are,
11:30
Speaker 1: We've arrived. Yes, and how even though I grew up
11:33
Speaker 1: in Highlia, Florida with you know, from immigrant parents and
11:37
Speaker 1: all that stuff. And Melissa grew up in Monterrey, UM
11:40
Speaker 1: as a Mexican national, you know, and all of us
11:44
Speaker 1: have different stories. But it's like we show up and
11:45
Speaker 1: we're like, here, we are, we we and this feels good.
11:48
Speaker 1: So that's and you realize how much more unlike we
11:51
Speaker 1: are than we are different. There's so much that brings
11:54
Speaker 1: us together, so much about our about our culture that
11:58
Speaker 1: is similar that we all can connect. I I always
12:01
Speaker 1: tell anyone that I meet on the street, ubers, you know,
12:05
Speaker 1: I'm like, if you come from any Latin American heritage,
12:11
Speaker 1: you're going to be able to see yourself so clearly
12:13
Speaker 1: in this story in one of the characters. Absolutely, And
12:18
Speaker 1: I am really curious about what does it mean for
12:20
Speaker 1: you all. Not only that there's so many Latin X
12:23
Speaker 1: characters in the show, but so many queer Latin X characters.
12:25
Speaker 1: There's not a token queer character. There are multiple generations
12:30
Speaker 1: even of queer characters and storylines, and so I'm really
12:32
Speaker 1: curious about what that means for you. And writing that
12:35
Speaker 1: into the show, it was really important to have the
12:38
Speaker 1: orbits feel true to life, you know. So like Eddie's orbit,
12:42
Speaker 1: Um Eileena Anthony is in that orbit, you know, like
12:46
Speaker 1: you have like a lot of them, and it's like
12:48
Speaker 1: a different generation of of UM of queer woman, you know.
12:53
Speaker 1: And then you have Gruces Orbit who has like gender
12:56
Speaker 1: queer marcles and we have a trans girl in it
12:59
Speaker 1: and stuff, and it's like and it looks like that,
13:01
Speaker 1: and then you know, your queerness is just kind of
13:05
Speaker 1: keeps her orbit very She's working it out. But that's
13:08
Speaker 1: the stuff that's part of it. Not being in the
13:10
Speaker 1: classic she's not. She's just doesn't like getting close to
13:14
Speaker 1: anyone that's different, you know. But so that was really important.
13:17
Speaker 1: And also the look like UM and we like in
13:20
Speaker 1: your party we had, you know, that was really important
13:24
Speaker 1: to to like just to to populate the world like
13:28
Speaker 1: it would really look like you know, UM also sitting
13:32
Speaker 1: here in the audience and UM, like we've UM portrayed
13:38
Speaker 1: and displayed a lot of his artwork, and then he
13:40
Speaker 1: was one of her vilantis, which is I don't know
13:42
Speaker 1: what I've seen it, it's um but anyway, I just
13:44
Speaker 1: wanted to say shout out to Julia. We love Julian
13:47
Speaker 1: shameless plug. We also interviewed Julio and we know but
13:51
Speaker 1: we discussed his cameo and his artwork in this show,
13:55
Speaker 1: and that was like our insight, our first insight into
13:57
Speaker 1: v that which was truly incredible. So I have a
14:03
Speaker 1: I have a I just want to say something about
14:05
Speaker 1: Eddie's character. I think it's the first time that I've
14:08
Speaker 1: seen some a TV show where the lesbian isn't a
14:13
Speaker 1: joke and it is not the villain, and it's actually
14:16
Speaker 1: the kindest person on the entire show. She is the
14:20
Speaker 1: heart of the show, which I think is incredible. And um,
14:24
Speaker 1: along the same line, let's keep talking about gay ship.
14:26
Speaker 1: This is good. So uh, I when I watched stuff
14:31
Speaker 1: like Orange is the New Black and shows like that, UM,
14:34
Speaker 1: I always find it interesting because you know, Latinos can
14:36
Speaker 1: always clock a Latino and be like, why is she
14:39
Speaker 1: playing a Puerto Rican? She is clearly Mexican. Okay, UM,
14:43
Speaker 1: So I want to know your thoughts about that, um,
14:46
Speaker 1: and then also like also, uh, straight character, straight people,
14:50
Speaker 1: uh playing gay people on TV? And and your thoughts
14:55
Speaker 1: on that because I think, um, um said, is is
14:59
Speaker 1: a the queer person on the show, one of the
15:02
Speaker 1: one of the queer actors. But I think, um, I'm
15:05
Speaker 1: forgetting everybody's name because I'm nervous. But anyways, yeah, Emma,
15:09
Speaker 1: Emma and Cruise, Yeah, you cannot ask you cannot, I
15:16
Speaker 1: rushed said, because I saw them in a play and
15:19
Speaker 1: I ran to them and I was like, Hi, you're
15:22
Speaker 1: my Eddie. You don't know what that means because I
15:23
Speaker 1: don't have a pickup and I haven't finished the pilot,
15:25
Speaker 1: but you're Eddie. And they were like, I think for
15:28
Speaker 1: coming to the play, I was like months months before,
15:34
Speaker 1: so I've I found set like that. So like I
15:38
Speaker 1: was like, this, this is what Eddie's going to be.
15:40
Speaker 1: But when you audition people, well, I couldn't ask you.
15:44
Speaker 1: Um And we and we tried, we like we like
15:47
Speaker 1: Carmen Cow and I were like like like, it's all
15:50
Speaker 1: wiggly the questions. It was like are you seeing anyone whatever?
15:54
Speaker 1: Like like do they like like you try and you
15:58
Speaker 1: can't and so you do you it's legal, so you
16:01
Speaker 1: can illegal. So that part when we cast out, especially
16:06
Speaker 1: for the two sisters, you just have to you know,
16:10
Speaker 1: get who you get, you know. But also I feel
16:12
Speaker 1: like it shouldn't matter at least, I mean, I don't
16:15
Speaker 1: get to play a queer character in the show. I
16:18
Speaker 1: am one of the straight characters in the show. But
16:21
Speaker 1: I I know that I as an actor, I wouldn't.
16:25
Speaker 1: I think twice, I would take the if I could
16:29
Speaker 1: act as a queer character, as a lesbian, whatever, Like
16:32
Speaker 1: it's it just like adds to the journey of the character.
16:36
Speaker 1: It's something beautiful. And I think we should get to
16:39
Speaker 1: the point where the fact that a character is queer
16:43
Speaker 1: or a lesbian or bisexual is not like the most
16:47
Speaker 1: important thing about the character, because it never is about
16:49
Speaker 1: a straight character. When when when someone is like describing
16:53
Speaker 1: a show, he's like, oh, what's the name of that guy?
16:57
Speaker 1: The straight guy? You never say that, You say, oh,
17:00
Speaker 1: a lawyer or like the policeman. You know, Like, why
17:02
Speaker 1: should it have to be like the gay, that queer,
17:05
Speaker 1: that the lesbian. I think we have to like And
17:08
Speaker 1: I think that's a really great place to move towards.
17:10
Speaker 1: Like I think we are in there because I know
17:12
Speaker 1: even for me, like the and everybody has their personal experience,
17:17
Speaker 1: you know, but the idea I would love to also
17:20
Speaker 1: move towards the place where we move away from this
17:22
Speaker 1: binary sexuality because I know I feel get crushes on
17:27
Speaker 1: girls the same way I get crushes on guys, and uh,
17:30
Speaker 1: and that doesn't change. Like I landed in this place
17:34
Speaker 1: and I have to stand there, you know. So I think, Um,
17:37
Speaker 1: I know from a I mean there's two that's a
17:39
Speaker 1: hard time being loved at all, you know what I mean,
17:42
Speaker 1: And that is something that you know, in getting to
17:45
Speaker 1: experience that and showing that through her characters, I think
17:48
Speaker 1: that that is such a human thing. But to cast
17:51
Speaker 1: it so like for me and we're the problem that
17:53
Speaker 1: I I had to like. So the Don who played Maracles,
17:58
Speaker 1: I saw him gonna play I rushed him afterwards and
18:00
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm gonna write you apart and I
18:03
Speaker 1: did nobody else read for it. I was like here,
18:05
Speaker 1: So I am able to do that for some of
18:08
Speaker 1: the characters that maybe stars doesn't have to approve as
18:11
Speaker 1: much as like this was a whole search, you know,
18:14
Speaker 1: so um, but like you and who else? Um, just
18:19
Speaker 1: the way we've Alena. I was like, Ailena, We're gonna
18:22
Speaker 1: write you a rocky you know, in that way, I'm
18:24
Speaker 1: able to cast. It's it's hard when they come into
18:27
Speaker 1: auditions because it's all legal in you know, so it's
18:30
Speaker 1: it's it's tough you try, but then you know absolutely
18:32
Speaker 1: the same thing with staffing directors. I can't be like,
18:35
Speaker 1: are you clear? You know, like you read somewhere okay,
18:38
Speaker 1: roaster shape Okay, well you know because the L word,
18:41
Speaker 1: but you know, but it, um you have to sort
18:43
Speaker 1: of like code. It's like code code. I want us
18:46
Speaker 1: to talk to also about another really important character in
18:50
Speaker 1: the show, which is the city of Los Angeles and
18:52
Speaker 1: the boil Heights area. Um do you want to talk
18:55
Speaker 1: a little bit about what boil Heights and and l
18:57
Speaker 1: A mean to us, like as podcasters and why we
19:00
Speaker 1: loved the show so much. Yeah? Absolutely, um So, for
19:02
Speaker 1: those that don't know, look at thought it. We actually
19:04
Speaker 1: record in boil Heights, record at Espasio. So for us
19:08
Speaker 1: watching the show, and we're very invested in the community
19:11
Speaker 1: because we're we're visitors, right, we're support the community. And
19:14
Speaker 1: um so, to see the t shirts right the Nico
19:18
Speaker 1: makes on the show, being worn by the characters was
19:20
Speaker 1: truly incredible. So I'm wondering for Tania, how was that
19:24
Speaker 1: for you too? I also saw me v that which
19:27
Speaker 1: a boutique highland park that also is where we first started, right,
19:31
Speaker 1: So how was that for you? Picking out the artists
19:33
Speaker 1: that you wanted on the show and all the other
19:36
Speaker 1: types of creative work that you UM displayed. I sent
19:40
Speaker 1: Hannah Jacobs are costume designer, to Espasio, and because we
19:44
Speaker 1: have to get everything cleared, they cleared everything so they
19:47
Speaker 1: let us UM have, you know, because not everything. We
19:50
Speaker 1: want to remember the T shirt that I want you
19:52
Speaker 1: to have, and they didn't clear it, you know. UM.
19:54
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of stuff we wish we could do,
19:56
Speaker 1: but it doesn't get you know, UM cleared. But they
20:00
Speaker 1: worked really well with us and UM and this next
20:02
Speaker 1: season we've already started those conversations with like local vendors
20:06
Speaker 1: and also just UM artists. I can't say it, but
20:10
Speaker 1: I'm excited, you know, to be like because now I
20:12
Speaker 1: know more because they started like like um air fresheners.
20:18
Speaker 1: They sent me a box and I was like, well,
20:20
Speaker 1: we do have a car. She has a super route.
20:23
Speaker 1: Well you know like that like oh my, I'm gonna
20:26
Speaker 1: be like there's gonna be so many boxes and things
20:28
Speaker 1: in the office. Whatever. Was like yeah, but like, um,
20:34
Speaker 1: like that's something because that's as a consumer I consumed,
20:39
Speaker 1: Like I go to UM and I spend so much money.
20:47
Speaker 1: My writers spend so much more. That's where they have
20:50
Speaker 1: decorated their offices like with like pillows and like you know,
20:53
Speaker 1: so we we are that. So that was really important
20:57
Speaker 1: to be authentic in that and it's it really does
21:00
Speaker 1: read as so authentic because we're watching the show and
21:03
Speaker 1: we're like, oh my god, it's like it's Pico Boulevards.
21:09
Speaker 1: You know, our friends designed that t shirt. Like our
21:12
Speaker 1: friends like you know, put on this event or somehow involved.
21:15
Speaker 1: For me, some of my favorite films movies ever are
21:19
Speaker 1: l A based. Like I can think of John Singleton
21:21
Speaker 1: and how he makes l A like a really living,
21:24
Speaker 1: breathing character in the landscapes, and I see a lot
21:26
Speaker 1: of that with this show. There's a lot of love
21:29
Speaker 1: for it. Yeah, we um the vendors, like the tamoyella.
21:32
Speaker 1: We found a real chamoyella maker, and we had to
21:35
Speaker 1: be careful because not a lot of documented you know,
21:37
Speaker 1: so we had to be like you know, and we
21:41
Speaker 1: found because only a real chamoya maker can make a
21:43
Speaker 1: chamoyala right, same thing like the one that us he
21:48
Speaker 1: was like not an extra you know. So that's important
21:51
Speaker 1: too because it's providing work but also representation for that thing.
21:55
Speaker 1: And people can't you know, Americans can't say that word.
21:58
Speaker 1: But it's like what is that? So many questions about um.
22:01
Speaker 1: I'm like, go and eat some of that. Plus if
22:04
Speaker 1: you can, I just say something about al A though,
22:12
Speaker 1: just because like been having lived in bull Heights and
22:14
Speaker 1: having contributed so much, even when I wasn't living in there,
22:17
Speaker 1: like there's something about the area, Like there's something about
22:19
Speaker 1: bull Hi st. I think the show captures a lot
22:21
Speaker 1: is just like that serendipitous things that happen, like just
22:25
Speaker 1: it's such a beautiful experience like that you would you
22:28
Speaker 1: would go and there's things that that. It's the city
22:31
Speaker 1: or the culture or it's like the energy and it
22:34
Speaker 1: and it brings you miracles or it brings you like food,
22:38
Speaker 1: or it brings you what you need. And that's how
22:39
Speaker 1: I always felt when I was in Bull Hi. It's
22:41
Speaker 1: like if I was homeless, I could have a place
22:43
Speaker 1: to sleep if I needed to eat La Segne would
22:48
Speaker 1: feed me like that to me was like the most
22:50
Speaker 1: beautiful thing that I could ever experience in Los Angeles.
22:53
Speaker 1: Um growing up here and you know, being South American
22:56
Speaker 1: or growing up in Los Angeles Hunton Park. But um,
23:01
Speaker 1: and I would like to save you on making go
23:02
Speaker 1: congratulations sports sort scorts especially, I know what it is.
23:09
Speaker 1: So so it's an exciting day to do latin next
23:13
Speaker 1: a good day. So along the same lines, I know
23:17
Speaker 1: that when we started doing Latinos Who Lunch, I think
23:20
Speaker 1: that through our conversations on the podcast, I got closer
23:24
Speaker 1: to my family and I also started to investigate my Latinida,
23:28
Speaker 1: my identity a little bit more. Has that happened with
23:32
Speaker 1: your Latinida based on what you're learning through the show.
23:36
Speaker 1: I just found out a few days ago that I
23:38
Speaker 1: have been as well in family wait Mexican, Dominican, Hurrican,
23:46
Speaker 1: like you know, just talking about my mom, I was
23:48
Speaker 1: like really wanted to because a lot of times people
23:51
Speaker 1: won't discuss our our parents and our grandparents won't discuss
23:54
Speaker 1: their immigration story and give you the exact details. And
23:57
Speaker 1: I realized that there was a lot of details that
23:59
Speaker 1: I didn't really know, and I had wanted to know more.
24:03
Speaker 1: So we talked about and she just kind of kept
24:05
Speaker 1: brushing over certain things and I was like, okay, but
24:06
Speaker 1: we're exactly like how did you go from Dominican Republic
24:10
Speaker 1: to the United States and um? And then it came
24:14
Speaker 1: up that they went to ben as well of us,
24:15
Speaker 1: and I was like why and then it was like, well,
24:18
Speaker 1: we have family there and I was like what. She's like, well,
24:20
Speaker 1: we had to go there too because we have a
24:22
Speaker 1: family there. Six months, we had to get residency there
24:25
Speaker 1: and then to be able to come over because it
24:27
Speaker 1: was like easier all this stuff. And I'm just like,
24:29
Speaker 1: how did am I just finding this out? You know?
24:32
Speaker 1: And I talked to her about it when I booked
24:34
Speaker 1: the show, and I was starting to kind of get
24:36
Speaker 1: and then like can you still? I had to really
24:38
Speaker 1: pride to get it. So it's like even things like that,
24:40
Speaker 1: I'm like, we'll never know all the secrets. It's so
24:43
Speaker 1: interesting because the show has a lot to do with
24:45
Speaker 1: family secrets. Well, you know, in my family there there
24:48
Speaker 1: is still someone I can't say who it is, who
24:51
Speaker 1: will say that he has a roommate and just won't
24:54
Speaker 1: come out already, you know, And it's still has this
24:58
Speaker 1: you know, this shame and it's and his mother has
25:01
Speaker 1: passed away now and he's still well. We have to
25:04
Speaker 1: be kind to that. It's a generational thing right over,
25:07
Speaker 1: because there was real consequence back there, you know. Now
25:11
Speaker 1: we have all the lack like I'm old, um, and
25:15
Speaker 1: not like I I'm old. And so I'm from a
25:18
Speaker 1: generation that does have a coming out story, you know,
25:21
Speaker 1: but like kids now, they don't have a coming own story,
25:24
Speaker 1: and they come up with all the right words, you know,
25:26
Speaker 1: and I'm like it found like I did a non
25:29
Speaker 1: binary person. We didn't have that language for it yet,
25:32
Speaker 1: you know, but but we we were in the act
25:34
Speaker 1: doing like trying to make it work. But like now,
25:37
Speaker 1: I think if I would, you know, do a take two,
25:39
Speaker 1: I would. It's it's not I mean, there's still a
25:43
Speaker 1: consequence to being us, but there it's a little bit easier,
25:46
Speaker 1: and there's the language. Yeah. I think the Internet has
25:49
Speaker 1: also made the language more accessible to youth. I didn't
25:51
Speaker 1: have any of the language. And um, if my mom
25:55
Speaker 1: had had a show like this, you know when I
25:57
Speaker 1: was coming out, maybe our you know, our XP again
26:00
Speaker 1: says a family would have been different. So I think
26:02
Speaker 1: it's really important now that we do have this language
26:04
Speaker 1: and beat us obviously a great representation of maybe not
26:07
Speaker 1: necessarily having a coming out story because we know that
26:10
Speaker 1: necessarily didn't have one with our girls, right, But there
26:13
Speaker 1: is this like added element of this queerness and this
26:15
Speaker 1: closet that's still there. And I love that there's TV
26:19
Speaker 1: shows now that represent us and represent us in multidimensional ways,
26:23
Speaker 1: like a fully rounded character. What like I don't have
26:27
Speaker 1: to play a janitor, you know, so um And what's
26:30
Speaker 1: really great is like, um, so I introduced my mom
26:34
Speaker 1: to one day at a time and the goal is
26:37
Speaker 1: that she's going to be hooked on it. We'll rewatch
26:39
Speaker 1: it together and then watch nervous sitting. I'm nervous, No,
26:52
Speaker 1: I mean some of us have had family members that
26:55
Speaker 1: have had a hard time with the show. My grandmother
26:57
Speaker 1: the last time I saw her, after she said goodbye
26:59
Speaker 1: and I mean and kids me, she said, once you're
27:01
Speaker 1: done with the show, don't ever do anything like this again. Yeah,
27:05
Speaker 1: we were joking about going back in the closet. We
27:06
Speaker 1: were back there and I was like, just like everythingksgiving girl. Also,
27:13
Speaker 1: also like I think with the with the characters who
27:15
Speaker 1: watched the all the queer or transgender characters or non
27:18
Speaker 1: binary folks and everything, like you can't assume their life
27:21
Speaker 1: either because like I'm non binary, but Eddie's not like Eddie.
27:25
Speaker 1: Eddie is butch lesbian, she's she she's like her own.
27:29
Speaker 1: And I think it's important because it's I'm tired of
27:32
Speaker 1: people saying, well, you look gay, you look this way,
27:35
Speaker 1: you were this, and they're not separating sexuality and gender,
27:37
Speaker 1: and I think it's like, let's keep that going because
27:39
Speaker 1: people still like so wearing pink and you're a man,
27:42
Speaker 1: like okay, like so what you know, Like that's how
27:45
Speaker 1: and they're still stuck. People are still stuck in, right,
27:47
Speaker 1: So you've got to continue it. And this this helps
27:49
Speaker 1: a lot, you know, to continue the conversation and the representation.
27:52
Speaker 1: And I think that's also what's commending about the show,
27:54
Speaker 1: because we tend to focus on this binary system, right,
27:57
Speaker 1: and that binary system. What he does is centered our
27:59
Speaker 1: tragic these and that's what we've seen in media throughout
28:02
Speaker 1: the twentieth century. And the fact that we step outside
28:06
Speaker 1: of that binary and then you discenter the tragedy and
28:08
Speaker 1: then you actually create very like, well rounded characters is
28:12
Speaker 1: the type of TV and the type of cultural content
28:15
Speaker 1: that everybody needs to be making right now. Yes, yes, absolutely,
28:18
Speaker 1: I think I think people are making it, it's just
28:21
Speaker 1: not getting produced. And that's the like I was trying
28:24
Speaker 1: to talk, I was at a leap earlier trying to talk.
28:27
Speaker 1: It was with Gloria and and um the Niel Santis
28:31
Speaker 1: and we were talking about like what what is this
28:34
Speaker 1: so right right here with the creators right uh and
28:37
Speaker 1: then there are the gatekeepers, and we might get up
28:39
Speaker 1: to the gatekeeper part. It's this the the white men
28:43
Speaker 1: with money, you know that are sort of really really
28:46
Speaker 1: running the thing. That's where we we we I don't
28:49
Speaker 1: know how to break that wall, you know, you know,
28:52
Speaker 1: we like we're Internet kids, were of the Internet. We're
28:55
Speaker 1: from the Internet. We've been online since we were like nine,
28:59
Speaker 1: and we have not logged so we have not logged
29:02
Speaker 1: off like in Ears. I see and we're not going to.
29:06
Speaker 1: I see a lot of um Latino creators online in
29:10
Speaker 1: the digital space right with the YouTube channels, the podcast
29:13
Speaker 1: are products like Fuchila Fresheners and look at the bath
29:17
Speaker 1: Bonds and whoever it is. I see a lot of
29:20
Speaker 1: Internet influence in the show. It feels to me like,
29:23
Speaker 1: there's that connection there. And Maddie's character, right, is so
29:26
Speaker 1: familiar to us because she seems like all of our
29:29
Speaker 1: friends who we all narrate our lives on our instagrams
29:32
Speaker 1: and we go on our political rants. But then my
29:33
Speaker 1: grandma is still knocking on my door, you know what,
29:35
Speaker 1: I need to come do stuff. So I'm really interested
29:38
Speaker 1: in how the Internet has factored into the character development,
29:41
Speaker 1: the development of the show, and even the success of
29:44
Speaker 1: the show. The writers are like us, so they consume
29:50
Speaker 1: entertainment media news like us. So as soon as some
29:54
Speaker 1: like right now, my butt has been buzzing, so I
29:57
Speaker 1: bet something happened like either like in the do you
30:00
Speaker 1: all Marco Polo? Everybody used to get Marc Polo, I
30:05
Speaker 1: should get somebody, but like either as Marco Polo, so
30:07
Speaker 1: in our little like social media or in big social media.
30:11
Speaker 1: So we consume it that way, and I think we
30:13
Speaker 1: should reflect how we are living now, how we you know,
30:17
Speaker 1: how TV there's a lot of like, Hi, I came
30:19
Speaker 1: because I wanted to see her, was like, oh, you
30:21
Speaker 1: send a text, right, that's not that's not how we
30:23
Speaker 1: communicate it. But like in TV we're still doing that
30:25
Speaker 1: because it's more you know, dramatic, but yeah, yeah, what
30:30
Speaker 1: is it? But like we wanted to incorporate how we
30:33
Speaker 1: really live because we're creating it and a lot of
30:37
Speaker 1: the people in the room and of the writers are um,
30:40
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of TV experience or have just
30:43
Speaker 1: just a bit, and so I feel like they're fresh
30:46
Speaker 1: and um and that you know, and you can tell
30:49
Speaker 1: with the show. You know, same thing with the directors,
30:51
Speaker 1: so like you can tell they have a fresh eye
30:55
Speaker 1: and it shows, and it shows. Um. I one thing
30:59
Speaker 1: I really apreciative, or one of the many things I
31:01
Speaker 1: appreciate about the show is um all the sex scenes
31:05
Speaker 1: you know, and I know how that sounds, but what
31:07
Speaker 1: I like about is what I like, what I really
31:11
Speaker 1: really appreciate about it is that it's showing women owning
31:14
Speaker 1: their sexuality and being really open and like they enjoy it. Right,
31:19
Speaker 1: women also enjoy sex, not just men. And there's this
31:21
Speaker 1: really important scene, um where the character Mahdi is like Eddie, right,
31:28
Speaker 1: the character Eddie for being um with Lynn, right, she
31:33
Speaker 1: like catches them right, Johnny, I'm sorry, Johnny, Johnny, I'm
31:38
Speaker 1: sorry with Johnny's basically I'm like wait with Johnny, Yes,
31:49
Speaker 1: and the father steps in, right, and he says, like, oh,
31:51
Speaker 1: leave him alone, right, it doesn't matter some of your business. Right.
31:55
Speaker 1: Yet Linna has been called like multiple times throughout the season,
31:59
Speaker 1: So like, what is that like for the women that
32:02
Speaker 1: are are playing like these very like open sexual characters, Like,
32:05
Speaker 1: what is that like for you playing these these women? Well,
32:09
Speaker 1: sledge shaming is real, and I think the funny thing
32:13
Speaker 1: is that as it was happening in the show for Lynn,
32:18
Speaker 1: it was happening in real life on social media. And
32:22
Speaker 1: I think that was like a good reflection of how
32:25
Speaker 1: we are as a society and as people. It's automatic
32:29
Speaker 1: the blame goes to the woman, because oh, we're taught,
32:32
Speaker 1: were conditioned that we have to be you know, like saints,
32:35
Speaker 1: and we have to behave and we have to like
32:37
Speaker 1: let the man. We have to be hard to get
32:39
Speaker 1: and no one wants to marry an easy woman, you know.
32:44
Speaker 1: And I know that for me, it was really hard
32:49
Speaker 1: when I got the role and I had to talk
32:52
Speaker 1: with Tanya about like all the things that Lynn was
32:55
Speaker 1: going to have to do. I was like terrified, and
33:00
Speaker 1: not so because like I was scared to do to
33:03
Speaker 1: go there, but because I was more scared of what
33:05
Speaker 1: people are going to say about me back home. And
33:09
Speaker 1: I think that's a thing, like a big thing about
33:14
Speaker 1: Latino X community. We are so afraid of it getting done,
33:19
Speaker 1: of what people will say, of being judged. And I
33:22
Speaker 1: realized that that was hindering me as a as a person.
33:26
Speaker 1: And I trust Tanya. She was like, don't worry. Well,
33:31
Speaker 1: first of all, she like basically like was like, shut
33:35
Speaker 1: the funk up, Like that's not real. She like gave
33:38
Speaker 1: me a wake up call and was like, you can't
33:40
Speaker 1: have like that fear like a cloud over you and
33:43
Speaker 1: just like because that's gonna like halt your development. Yeah,
33:48
Speaker 1: And so I was like, okay, I I'm I'm I'm
33:51
Speaker 1: gonna like jump off this cliff with you. And she
33:53
Speaker 1: promised me that she was going to like take care
33:55
Speaker 1: of me and we were going to discuss everything. And
33:59
Speaker 1: I learned so much playing Lynn, like the way that
34:03
Speaker 1: she owns her sexuality, the way that she has the
34:06
Speaker 1: power over men and she knows it and she enjoys it.
34:11
Speaker 1: Like I was like, why why wasn't I like not
34:13
Speaker 1: not like the going into a relationship with a pregnant
34:16
Speaker 1: woman that's you know, but the fact that like if
34:20
Speaker 1: you want to seek pleasure for yourself. Why should that
34:24
Speaker 1: be something shameful? Why should I be afraid to What
34:28
Speaker 1: does it matter to other people? Like you know, it's
34:31
Speaker 1: like it's your life, like handle yourself, you know. And
34:34
Speaker 1: you had brought up something in an interview in the
34:36
Speaker 1: past where it's like you also hear a lot of
34:38
Speaker 1: other actors as being like, I respect myself too much
34:40
Speaker 1: to do nudity, and you're like, why can't you just
34:42
Speaker 1: say that's not for me? I'm not really that into it.
34:46
Speaker 1: The judgment, Yeah, like you can't you do nudity you
34:49
Speaker 1: are like damaged or less. Yeah, that's because you have
34:53
Speaker 1: issues with it exactly, And why can't you just be like, oh,
34:56
Speaker 1: you know what, that's I don't feel confident enough to
34:58
Speaker 1: do that, or I don't feel comfortable to doing matter.
35:00
Speaker 1: It's not something that I care to do. Um as
35:02
Speaker 1: opposed to making a comment about yourself, but really kind
35:06
Speaker 1: of putting your eye on everybody else, it's so silly,
35:08
Speaker 1: and for us it was for us it was the
35:10
Speaker 1: first time that we had done that before, and it
35:13
Speaker 1: was one of those things where we want to see
35:15
Speaker 1: ourselves being reflected. Antania was incredible in that she she
35:20
Speaker 1: has people with all different body types being shown right,
35:23
Speaker 1: and and we still have a very certain sort of
35:26
Speaker 1: beauty ideal, the Latina beauty ideal, And so it was
35:29
Speaker 1: beautiful to to say, okay, you know what we're going
35:32
Speaker 1: to also sort of Pioneer and Spear had different body
35:36
Speaker 1: types and there's no shame in that. And we have
35:38
Speaker 1: this opportunity to do it and hasn't been done before.
35:41
Speaker 1: And with with our actual sex scenes, it was so safe,
35:44
Speaker 1: Like you would think by now Hollywood would know if
35:47
Speaker 1: you want to do a sex scene, close a set
35:49
Speaker 1: and have only women, And that's what Tanya did for
35:52
Speaker 1: us well, because then they need to hire cinematographers who
35:55
Speaker 1: are female. You know what I mean. No, But but
35:58
Speaker 1: different things, Mike, make different people comfortable. I know that
36:03
Speaker 1: we were all doing it for the first time. Now
36:05
Speaker 1: you didn't have a sex scene, but you had a
36:07
Speaker 1: nudity scene and we had to talk and yes I did.
36:11
Speaker 1: I was like, don't worry about them, but I cared
36:13
Speaker 1: a lot about how you felt. My lie about like wait,
36:16
Speaker 1: if you're nervous. Then the first episode we had that
36:20
Speaker 1: conversation about that first that first scene in episode one
36:24
Speaker 1: in the stairs, you know, because like Tanya, I didn't
36:29
Speaker 1: know that, but Tanya had intended it to have nudity,
36:33
Speaker 1: and I didn't find out until the camera the day
36:35
Speaker 1: of camera tests, and the camera test was gonna involve
36:39
Speaker 1: me taking my shirt off for the first time in
36:41
Speaker 1: my life in front of a camera, and I was terrified.
36:44
Speaker 1: I was like I had a nod in my throat.
36:46
Speaker 1: I was just like I couldn't speak. I wanted to cry.
36:49
Speaker 1: And so I'm putting the dress on. Antania comes into
36:53
Speaker 1: the dressing room and she's like, okay, like where does
36:55
Speaker 1: it open? How are we going to see your boobs?
36:57
Speaker 1: And I was like I immediately went into like shock
37:01
Speaker 1: panic and I was like wait, wait, like I didn't
37:04
Speaker 1: know the scene was going to have nudity, like and
37:07
Speaker 1: Antonia started freaking out too, because it was like I
37:13
Speaker 1: was like I'm trying to discern yeah, and then and
37:16
Speaker 1: then and then I was like wait, no, listen, I
37:19
Speaker 1: just need you to give me a little time two
37:24
Speaker 1: prepare myself emotionally for this, because it is when you
37:27
Speaker 1: like expose yourself physically, it's not just physically, it's everything
37:31
Speaker 1: you're just out there. It's your most vulnerable moment, it's
37:35
Speaker 1: you're there, and it is and it was done, and
37:39
Speaker 1: it was you know, sometimes as an actor, you have
37:42
Speaker 1: these things that you're afraid of that you read in
37:44
Speaker 1: the script and you're like, oh my god, I'm so
37:46
Speaker 1: afraid of getting to that scene because it's going to
37:48
Speaker 1: be so difficult, and usually, at least for me, I
37:52
Speaker 1: get to it and I was and I'm like, oh,
37:54
Speaker 1: it wasn't that bad at all. But when I did
37:57
Speaker 1: my first nude scene, I was like, that's the hardest
38:01
Speaker 1: thing I've ever done. It was a lot. I was
38:04
Speaker 1: happy that I had Carlos with me, who was going
38:07
Speaker 1: through the same thing, and that I had Tanya support
38:11
Speaker 1: and the close set and the director was also really nice.
38:15
Speaker 1: He was like cut the first take and I was
38:17
Speaker 1: like I couldn't talk because I felt like if I
38:19
Speaker 1: opened my mouth i was going to start crying. And
38:21
Speaker 1: he was like, what do you need and I was
38:23
Speaker 1: like I just like I couldn't. And then by episode six,
38:29
Speaker 1: I was like I don't need a robe, like a girl.
38:34
Speaker 1: You did a good job. We're like, many, there's no
38:37
Speaker 1: nudity in this scene. She's like, are you sure. I
38:44
Speaker 1: just want to say Tanya that you know, we haven't
38:47
Speaker 1: touched upon this today, but in the midst of the
38:49
Speaker 1: Me Too movement, time's up and all these conversations about Hollywood.
38:53
Speaker 1: This is really incredible to hear about how a set
38:56
Speaker 1: can be very intentionally changed, and all of the sexual violence,
39:00
Speaker 1: the abuse of women, the abuse of queer actors and staff.
39:04
Speaker 1: It's it's completely unnecessary and it's completely avoidable. So amazing work.
39:09
Speaker 1: I'm just like, run of a pause for you for
39:11
Speaker 1: doing that. All right, So we're running short on time,
39:16
Speaker 1: but I do want to open up to audience questions,
39:18
Speaker 1: and I'm actually gonna pick on somebody, um from the
39:20
Speaker 1: very popular podcast Yes, two queer women talking about movies
39:26
Speaker 1: and television is my thing. Hey guys, Um, Well, the
39:36
Speaker 1: only question that comes to mind is one that I
39:37
Speaker 1: actually gave Bobby because I was like, you gotta ask
39:40
Speaker 1: for this, and it's gonna kind of work for the
39:42
Speaker 1: actors too. Basically I want to know from Tania is like,
39:45
Speaker 1: how do you navigate what the network ones, which is
39:48
Speaker 1: anthification and CHIPsters with like, and and also putting into
39:53
Speaker 1: the show what you want to put in there, which
39:54
Speaker 1: is like m a storyline, which is amazing. By the way,
39:57
Speaker 1: so thank you for that. How do you navigate that? Well,
40:00
Speaker 1: they gave me these parameters and then they gave me
40:02
Speaker 1: license to I'm not gonna say to have all the
40:05
Speaker 1: freedom of the world because it's like, you know, it's
40:08
Speaker 1: half an hour, you know, it's there are parameters, But
40:11
Speaker 1: then they gave me a lot of freedom. Um. So
40:14
Speaker 1: we've I've built the two around the sisters and then
40:17
Speaker 1: they're like that trauma and then the world just kind
40:19
Speaker 1: of came to came alive and uh and I haven't
40:23
Speaker 1: said no about like any of it how I wanted
40:26
Speaker 1: to build it. So I hope season two continues to
40:29
Speaker 1: be like that, you know. Um, but that part was
40:32
Speaker 1: easy in a way, you know. And they've been seriously
40:35
Speaker 1: and I'm not being a company girl, they have been amazing.
40:39
Speaker 1: They they just donated ten thou dollars to Rasis to
40:43
Speaker 1: like ask like they didn't have to, you know. Um.
40:46
Speaker 1: They have been a great partner, like a great co
40:49
Speaker 1: parent to the show. So I I'm so grateful it
40:52
Speaker 1: could have gone another way to another network, you know.
40:55
Speaker 1: Can I add something to to that. I didn't know
40:57
Speaker 1: this until like someone from I don't know, someone from
41:00
Speaker 1: the team told me but that stars all of the
41:03
Speaker 1: executives and stars took a training on non binary. I
41:06
Speaker 1: was like, what do you mean just on non binary
41:08
Speaker 1: like identity but but but Eddie's not non binary, Like
41:12
Speaker 1: I didn't get it, and they're like no, they want
41:14
Speaker 1: to know the difference and they want to know how
41:16
Speaker 1: to like, you know, the training for me as an actor,
41:19
Speaker 1: and I was like what, like, I'm never like it
41:22
Speaker 1: was really hard to take in because I didn't never
41:24
Speaker 1: thought that was possible. So thank you. We're seen at start.
41:28
Speaker 1: So hi, um, my name is Laura Marine and I'm
41:34
Speaker 1: a producer and a documentary filmmaker. So I just this
41:37
Speaker 1: is so incredible to see so many latinos that are
41:40
Speaker 1: empowered and also queer UM individuals and it's a beautiful thing.
41:46
Speaker 1: How can we continue this? I know, Tanya, you have
41:49
Speaker 1: an incredible story and now we have a platform. How
41:54
Speaker 1: can you guide others in you know, helping them out
41:57
Speaker 1: to be successful like you? Well, I don't know if
41:59
Speaker 1: we have a platform yet. This might be a fluke
42:02
Speaker 1: and I know that's like no, I know, like, don't
42:04
Speaker 1: be so emo about it, but but I don't know
42:07
Speaker 1: if I could recreate eight this um all I know
42:11
Speaker 1: is that what worked for me is that I kept
42:13
Speaker 1: creating content. I kept writing my place, and then when
42:17
Speaker 1: they're hiring me to do pilots, pilots, I would right, So, like,
42:20
Speaker 1: just have to keep creating content, whether it is just
42:24
Speaker 1: online unscripted stuff or scripted shot stuff. And we have
42:28
Speaker 1: to because um, I had written sixteen plays by the
42:31
Speaker 1: time I got here, so I had a voice. So
42:33
Speaker 1: by the time that I got tapped to bat, I
42:35
Speaker 1: had a voice, you know. So I had developed in
42:37
Speaker 1: the theater, in little theaters, you know, smaller than this, um,
42:42
Speaker 1: like at midnight like whatever. Like you just develop your
42:44
Speaker 1: voice and that's all we have control over. And then
42:47
Speaker 1: hopefully shaming will work for the once up here, No,
42:51
Speaker 1: because we that I don't know how. That's the part
42:54
Speaker 1: that I can't figure out. How do we get to
42:56
Speaker 1: Because the gatekeepers they want us, they understand the trends,
42:59
Speaker 1: they understand the numb birthday want. But it's the money
43:02
Speaker 1: people up here. So that part I don't know. I
43:04
Speaker 1: think it's also important. I mean I don't I don't
43:07
Speaker 1: know that part specifically because I'm not a creator like you.
43:12
Speaker 1: But I think what has worked, at least for the
43:15
Speaker 1: African American community that have fought for space and that
43:18
Speaker 1: have earned it is that they support each other. And
43:22
Speaker 1: so now that I have this show, that is a
43:24
Speaker 1: show that I think, I'm personally very proud of it,
43:27
Speaker 1: and I think it it represents us in a way
43:30
Speaker 1: that we deserve. It's not the only way that we
43:33
Speaker 1: should be represented. There should be more stories. But the
43:36
Speaker 1: way to get more stories is to tell those men
43:39
Speaker 1: at the top, like, look, hey, this is working. A
43:41
Speaker 1: show about Latinos is getting viewers and it's working, so
43:46
Speaker 1: we should make more. So there should be more people
43:48
Speaker 1: creating because we haven't a pop have not learned yet
43:55
Speaker 1: because we haven't had a cable prime cable show. But
43:58
Speaker 1: that's been a problem having the conversations. You know, it starts,
44:02
Speaker 1: it's like a lot of people are watching it, but
44:05
Speaker 1: they're not paying for it. Um, which is okay, we
44:11
Speaker 1: only have time for one more question. Hi, Tanya, my
44:14
Speaker 1: name is Mariano. I'm also from I'm from Chicago and
44:18
Speaker 1: I'm yeah, and I'm a grad student. And you see
44:20
Speaker 1: Sana Barbara and she kan next studies. Um. So my
44:23
Speaker 1: question is I have a lot of friends who are
44:25
Speaker 1: from the l A area who are super like, Wow,
44:27
Speaker 1: this is so l A sold chips there, so chicken
44:29
Speaker 1: next and you're from Chicago though mainly, and so am I.
44:32
Speaker 1: And to be honest, I didn't, even though I'm this
44:35
Speaker 1: is my major, I didn't figure out what it was
44:36
Speaker 1: until I really got here. You know. The only concept
44:39
Speaker 1: that chicano I had was George Lopez and and have
44:43
Speaker 1: to forgive the Midwest, you know, and that's why. And
44:46
Speaker 1: being from the Midwest, it's really odd for people to
44:49
Speaker 1: see and be all up about the show and it's like,
44:51
Speaker 1: don't even know what next is. So I want to
44:53
Speaker 1: know how you came about writing such a story that
44:56
Speaker 1: seems so unfamiliar to some one from the Midwest, to
44:58
Speaker 1: make it so true for people from so I did
45:01
Speaker 1: get shipped for this early on, or like you're not
45:03
Speaker 1: from Royale Heights, you know, and there's there's nothing I
45:06
Speaker 1: can do about that, Like there's no way to like
45:08
Speaker 1: time travel and make me from Wale Heights. But um,
45:11
Speaker 1: I stayed true to what I knew about Chicago, about
45:14
Speaker 1: people too, you know. And then as soon as I
45:17
Speaker 1: got the commission from Stars, I just spent a lot
45:20
Speaker 1: of time over there. And then when I staffed my room.
45:23
Speaker 1: People from Boil Highs people, a lot of people from
45:25
Speaker 1: the East Side, people from l A. So all the
45:28
Speaker 1: like slang and the stuff because I like, I also
45:31
Speaker 1: have um border Texas lank because I'm also Texican, so
45:35
Speaker 1: a lot of my my stuff, my syntax is like
45:37
Speaker 1: Texican syntax. UM. So like that, but we need to
45:40
Speaker 1: check it right, we need to like, um create something authentic.
45:44
Speaker 1: But I had a lot of like fact checkers, um,
45:46
Speaker 1: cultural fact checkers in my room. So, Gloria, Oh yeah,
45:50
Speaker 1: absolutely no. We had a cultural liaison that reached into
45:54
Speaker 1: the community, brought in vendors, brought in the mariachi is
45:56
Speaker 1: all sorts of things. So you can do it. Um,
45:59
Speaker 1: you start to really respectful of the community. Okay, one
46:02
Speaker 1: more question. Hi, my name is Biandria. UM I just
46:09
Speaker 1: say I'm I'm a black person who is not Latin
46:12
Speaker 1: xt and all, and I love the show. I'm actually
46:15
Speaker 1: a black queer woman. UM, and I love One of
46:17
Speaker 1: the things I love in the show is the scenes
46:19
Speaker 1: of women eating like an enjoying food job and the
46:35
Speaker 1: flont scene too, and how you weaved it into story. Um,
46:39
Speaker 1: and I just wanted to say that as feedback UM.
46:42
Speaker 1: But I my question is is that, UM, I'm curious
46:45
Speaker 1: about like the spirituality, like your spirituality and how you
46:50
Speaker 1: how that informs how you created the show because I've
46:53
Speaker 1: I think I've heard you seen you refer to that
46:56
Speaker 1: on like different things you've said on Twitter, and I'm
47:01
Speaker 1: very curious about that. UM. I think everyone in the
47:05
Speaker 1: panel has different levels of like um, the belief system
47:09
Speaker 1: that reaches back to the old ancestral female whise like
47:16
Speaker 1: you know, like that indigenous Um African Um ancestry that
47:22
Speaker 1: we have. I visit Senora's regularly, so I knew from
47:27
Speaker 1: the pilot. Actually we cut that scene, but the pilot
47:30
Speaker 1: used to open with the Senora you know, UM, and
47:32
Speaker 1: so that was always going to be really important. But actually,
47:35
Speaker 1: especially the two sisters have their different forms of spirituality.
47:37
Speaker 1: You know, she seeks it out like me through Senores
47:41
Speaker 1: um and speciality is like slapping it her in the
47:45
Speaker 1: face and she's not seeing it. She's seeing I'm not
47:47
Speaker 1: gonna tell you what the little girl is. I want
47:50
Speaker 1: you to. I want you to, like you know, UM,
47:53
Speaker 1: have your own version of it. But like they're both spiritual,
47:56
Speaker 1: they're just like trying to figure it out. You know,
47:59
Speaker 1: so that that is the same thing. The Senora's um
48:02
Speaker 1: who come to play the rosary with you. They like
48:05
Speaker 1: you would think all these traditional like Jahita, but they
48:10
Speaker 1: come and they are with her. And I wanted to
48:13
Speaker 1: show that too, that it's complicated. It's not just like
48:15
Speaker 1: this homophobic like um things. So I think they all,
48:19
Speaker 1: um are working through their spirituality, you know, because we don't.
48:22
Speaker 1: We're not all like just finished, you know, in this room.
48:25
Speaker 1: So that that's I'm excited to season two and now
48:28
Speaker 1: that we haven't like keep going with that. And I
48:29
Speaker 1: was so appreciated that Tanya would come to me and
48:32
Speaker 1: like so respectful of the character, like and say like
48:35
Speaker 1: Eddie is a healer. Eddie is a healer food through
48:39
Speaker 1: food and alcohol. Alcohol is medicine and um, because if
48:45
Speaker 1: you if you look at it, Edie's like drinking every
48:46
Speaker 1: single episode or you know, maybe not see it, but
48:49
Speaker 1: they're drinking. She's drinking every episode. So like it's if
48:52
Speaker 1: you if you tell the actor they're drinking, you know,
48:54
Speaker 1: she's drinking all every So it does something. But two
48:57
Speaker 1: with such respect and to me, you were speaking to
48:59
Speaker 1: my spirituality. So I appreciate you. Amazing, great question thank
49:03
Speaker 1: you so much for that question. So we actually have
49:05
Speaker 1: to wrap up now, so we want to thank the
49:08
Speaker 1: cast of Viva. Thank you Thania so much, thank you,
49:12
Speaker 1: thank you, Studio Network, thank you so much, and of
49:15
Speaker 1: course all of you for being here, and thank you
49:18
Speaker 1: to LALIF. This was like an incredible, incredible event for
49:22
Speaker 1: having us. We're so excited to be on season two
49:24
Speaker 1: as an we cannot wait for our cameos. Tanya, We're
49:30
Speaker 1: really excited. I have to have a lot of like
49:32
Speaker 1: bar nights. We're in bil Heights all the time. Okay, Tanya,
49:37
Speaker 1: So anyways, thank you. So that has been live at LALI.
49:39
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. Thank you so much.